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* The rings and scepters of ''Webcomic/''{{Homestuck}}'' royalty grant their bearers aspects of each of the sprite prototypings. While this makes the royalty progressively more powerful as more prototypings are added, it also makes their appearance progressively more bizzare.

->''"Oh, what do you know, it's a [[KryptoniteFactor uni-whale-scorpio-Pega-squid-icorn-girl]]. [[ContrivedCoincidence What are the odds.]] You know, taken all together, it's more ridiculous than scary. I guess it doesn't have a cumulative effect."''

* Happens to Marco involuntarily in ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'', "The Proposal" when he gets emotional over his dad's remarriage. He morphs a skunk/spider cross, a lobster/osprey cross and a poodle/polar bear cross at various points.
** He also morphs a trout with gorilla arms, which nearly suffocates him.
** Might also be said of anyone who uses the Frolis maneuver to create a morph of the DNA of several individuals of a species combined.

* Mr 2 Bon Clay from ''OnePiece'' once used a mash-up of the most ridiculous facial features he knew during his fight against Sanji, in an attempt to throw him off-guard with laughter. Unfortunately, 90% of said features are ''[[ShapeshifterDefaultForm his]]''[[note]]The only part that wasn't was Usopp's nose.[[/note]].

* Kefka in ''FinalFantasyVI'' has a half dozen penultimate bosses who are all merged into a grotesque spire of amalgamated shapes.
* In ''FinalFantasyVII'', Hojo's form in the second stage of his boss battle appears as nightmarish conglomeration of himself and his two minions from the first stage (to the extent that his limbs can still be targeted separately). By the third stage, he's got a full-on OneWingedAngel form going and looks human from the waist up again.

* Film/TheThing1982's final form is this.

* This is what the Lunar Knack "Hybrid Body Re-Arrangement" is for in {{Exalted}}. It allows the Lunar to, instead of shifting completely into a new form, shift only parts of his body into something. A Lunar in shark form could turn its tail fin into a mass of tentacles, it's left breast fin into a crab's claw, and the right breast fin into a human arm to wield its favourite sword, while it grows three pairs of giant spider legs and a pair of lungs before topping it off with feathered wings...

Long story short, it gets worse.

Despite the patchwork nature of this form, it does still have ''[[PowerUpgradingDeformation some]]'' advantages. Like the [[RuleOfScary power of intimidation]], its [[ShapeshifterBaggage supermassive]] [[MeatShield size]], and an AnatomyArsenal stocked with every variety of BreathWeapon known to man ([[SerialEscalation if not more]]), and can easily wipe out entire armies that approach anywhere within its InstantDeathRadius.

* The [[Film/{{Terminator 2}} T-1000]] has moments of this as it goes through PowerIncontinence when it falls into the molten iron.

* In DCNation, Fauna can use this trick, but it's quite difficult, and runs the risk of [[TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody turning her feral]].

* Belberith in {{Devil Survivor}} is a combination of all of the previous Bels that he had absorbed off-screen. He does, however, avert the part of this trope that makes him have more weaknesses, as he's [[ThatOneBoss hideously overpowered]].

* The T-1000 has moments of this as it goes through PowerIncontinence when it falls into the molten iron.

-->-- '''Malifishmirtz''', ''PhineasAndFerb'' episode "Excaliferb"

->Oh, what do you know, it's a [[KryptoniteFactor uni-whale-scorpio-Pega-squid-icorn-girl]]. [[ContrivedCoincidence What are the odds.]] You know, taken all together, it's more ridiculous than scary. I guess it doesn't have a cumulative effect.
-->'''Malifishmirtz''', ''PhineasAndFerb'' episode "Excaliferb"

* ''{{Castlevania}}: SymphonyOfTheNight'''s Scylla, as pictured above.

* Mr 2 Bon Clay from ''OnePiece'' once used a mash-up of the most ridiculous facial features he knew during his fight against Sanji, in an attempt to throw him off-guard with laughter. Unfortunately, 90% of said features are ''[[ShapeshifterDefaultForm his]]''[[hottip:*:The only part that wasn't was Usopp's nose.]].

* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' a [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifter]] engaged in the [[MindOverMatter telekinetic]] grapple with a monster [[spoiler:to prevent it from killing her friends]]. Her friend reminded that she passed out after doing this before and urged to switch to "a better form for this" if she can. One bout of panic, instinctive shape change and messy explosion[[hottip:*: of part of the monster]] later--

->Oh, what do you know, it's a [[MyOneWeakness uni-whale-scorpio-Pega-squid-icorn-girl]]. [[ContrivedCoincidence What are the odds.]] You know, taken all together, it's more ridiculous than scary. I guess it doesn't have a cumulative effect.

->Oh, what do you know, it's a uni-whale-scorpio-Pega-squid-icorn- girl. What are the odds. You know, taken all together, it's more ridiculous than scary. I guess it doesn't have a cumulative effect.

* Mr 2 Bon Clay from ''OnePiece'' once used a mash-up of the most ridiculous facial features he knew during his fight against Sanji, in an attempt to throw him off-guard with laughter. Unfortunately, 90% of said features are ''[[ShapeshifterDefaultForm his]]''.

* In ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'', recurring enemy Naraku frequently uses a mash-up form of the demons he's [[AppendageAssimilation assimilated]]. This is especially true during his periods of weakness (something all half-demons go through regularly) since he's stuck as a giant mass of organs and tentacles, overdoing this trope to the point that he can't really move around.

This attempt at creating a unique OneWingedAngel SuperMode will tend to [[GoneHorriblyWrong encounter a slight problem]]: Instead of [[LightningBruiser merging the best elements]] of their various forms into one sleek and awesome HybridMonster, it will ''literally'' combine and merge their various forms together, producing a [[PowerUpgradingDeformation chimeric monstrosity]] that only an EldritchAbomination could appreciate. It may feature [[MultipleHeadCase one head from each form]]; all the arms, claws, paws, legs, CombatTentacles, fur, scales, and BodyHorror that goes along with them; a [[PowerGivesYouWings half-dozen]] [[GoodWingsEvilWings mismatched wings]], and -- like the proverbial cherry on top -- the original head and/or upper torso of their ShapeshifterDefaultForm.

Despite the patchwork nature of this form, it does still have ''some'' advantages. Like the [[RuleOfScary power of intimidation]], its [[ShapeshifterBaggage supermassive]] [[MeatShield size]], and an AnatomyArsenal stocked with every variety of BreathWeapon known to man ([[SerialEscalation if not more]]), and can easily wipe out entire armies that approach anywhere within its InstantDeathRadius.

This attempt at creating a unique OneWingedAngel SuperMode will tend to [[GoneHorriblyWrong encounter a slight problem]]: Instead of [[LightningBruiser merging the best elements]] of their various forms into one sleek and awesome HybridMonster, it will ''literally'' combine and merge their various forms together, producing a chimeric monstrosity that only an EldritchAbomination could appreciate. It may feature [[MultipleHeadCase one head from each form]]; all the arms, claws, paws, legs, CombatTentacles, fur, scales, and BodyHorror that goes along with them; a [[PowerGivesYouWings half-dozen]] [[GoodWingsEvilWings mismatched wings]], and -- like the proverbial cherry on top -- the original head and/or upper torso of their ShapeshifterDefaultForm.